Even when the funding is there, getting FEMA approval to build a tornado safe room still takes times. Find out one local school's journey inside.

VIDEO | Garrett Haake went behind-the-scenes with the Kansas City Salvation Army as volunteers provided relief and support to victims of this week's massive

Emails between employees of the Missouri Department of Social Services show notes missing as Lucas Webb’s case was transferred between investigators.

Police are searching for a driver who hit a child early Wednesday evening in Kansas City, Mo.

Residents have started to visit their neighborhoods to see what is left of their homes.

One person has been injured in a house fire in Leawood, Kan.

The Fill the Fridge campaign has brought in 4,000 pounds of food, but there's still a need for more.

A procession of volunteers filed down a street toward the Moore Cemetery, a 20-acre resting ground that accommodates the city’s earliest leaders and soon will

The death toll from Monday's tornado in Moore stands at 24, but officials say six people are still unaccounted for.

The Joplin tornado on May 22, 2011, hit one of the worst possible places. Six people were killed inside St. John's Medical Center, and now the building is

The familiar smells and sounds inside Dude's Donuts in Joplin tell customers everything is all right.

Joplin High School students have a new normal. They've been in transition for two years now, with classes moved to a temporary space in an old department store

Kevin Trudeau, who built an infomercial empire on his persuasive speaking style, did not have much to say in a Chicago federal courtroom on Tuesday.

More than 1,000 volunteers arrived in Moore, Okla., as part of an organized cleanup effort less than two days after a massive tornado devastated the town.

Despite concerns earlier this week, the warning sirens in Liberty, Mo., did work during a test Wednesday morning.